{"id":96911,"date":"2025-08-25T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96911\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:39:09","slug":"canada-to-resume-free-trade-talks-with-south-american-bloc-mercosur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96911\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to resume free-trade talks with South American bloc Mercosur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ottawa last month signalled renewed interest in talks with Mercosur, a major exporter of beef, soybeans and minerals.Pgiam\/iStockPhoto \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Canada and South American bloc Mercosur will resume negotiations for a free-trade agreement, Brasilia and Ottawa announced on Monday after a meeting in Brazil\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

Mercosur, whose rotating presidency is currently held by Brazil, is a major exporter of beef, soybeans and minerals. Besides Brazil, the bloc includes Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, while Bolivia is in the process of becoming a full member.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have directed our senior trade officials to engage in discussions, including a meeting of chief negotiators in early October, in order to resume Free Trade Agreement negotiations,\u201d Brazil and Canada said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

Canada signalled renewed interest in restarting talks with Mercosur last month, as part of a broader push to diversify trade away from the United States amid uncertainty caused by tariffs<\/a> imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brazil in talks with Canada to revive free-trade deal with Mercosur bloc<\/a><\/p>\n

Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu eyes new markets outside U.S., looks at Southeast Asia and beyond<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when rules-based trading is being threatened, we need to stand with like-minded partners, as Brazil is, to really build on that structure, to make sure that structure exists, to promote more trade,\u201d Canadian Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu told reporters in Brasilia.<\/p>\n

Talks between Canada and Mercosur have been stalled since 2021 as South American countries focused on local issues such as elections, before Trump\u2019s policy shifts reset the trade agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrazil and Canada have been affected by measures that distort the legitimate flow of goods and investments, adopted without technical justification,\u201d Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira said, calling the October meeting \u201cimportant\u201d for the progress of the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Ottawa last month signalled renewed interest in talks with Mercosur, a major exporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-96911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}